Author: yogamarathonmom
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Should you join an online fitness community?
by Jay Hiller, July 29, 2022 One of the best parts of practicing regularly at an in-person yoga studio is the community. People tend to be on their best behavior at yoga studios and you get to know people in a special way, practicing yoga together. Even at the big box gym I attended before…
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A great book about meditation
Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really Trying by Light Watkins, Ballantine Books (Random House/Penguin Random House), New York, 2018 This is my favorite book about meditation. When I read this book last year, I had had both a good amount of meditation instruction and quite a bit of of instruction on how…
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Push ups, an exercise with many on ramps
Jay Hiller, July 27, 2022 When I was growing up, I believed that there were exercises for men and exercises for women. Men did push ups. Women did girls’ push ups. In my case, for a long time, I didn’t do either. Even after I became more physically active with running, swimming and eventually yoga,…
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Fractional weight plates are awesome
by Jay Hiller, July 26, 2022 Sometimes fitness reminds me of when I was doing a lot of sewing. There’s always one more cool gadget. Fractional weight plates, that is plates that fit onto a barbell that weigh between .25 and 1 pounds are extremely helpful to have. Frequently the increments between traditional plates are…
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Sometimes you need rest more than you need exercise
Jay Hiller, July 25, 2022 When you have a fitness goal or you’re on a good streak, it can be tricky to recognize when you need to rest. I’m not thinking about the times when you would rather lie on the couch and watch Netflix than pick up something heavy. (We’ve all felt like that…
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This is a good book
Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S. Iyengar, DK Penguin Random House, London, New York, Melbourne, Munich, Delhi There’s a story about a question that was posed to Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar, the author of this book who is frequently credited for bringing yoga to Europe and North America. Someone studying with him asked what…
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Life is more fun if you do stuff
by Jay Hiller, July 23, 2022 In Austin, Texas there’s a well-known and popular natural swimming pool, Barton Springs. If you’ve been there or heard of it, you know that it’s a special place. And you also know that the water is 68 degrees year round, cold. Up until about 5 years ago, I would…
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Gadget Review: Crossrope Fitness jump ropes
Jay Hiller, July 22, 2022 About a year ago, I was talking to David Robbins, a personal trainer and a friend, about how I’d always wanted to learn to jump rope and that I just seemed to stink at it. I saw it as a circumstance I couldn’t do anything about. He didn’t see it…
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Do something every day.
It doesn’t have to be much. In May I got a smart watch because I was interested in how many steps I was taking each day. And I like gadgets. And it looked fun. Some of the features stopped interesting me after a while. However, one piece of data surprised me. I get 3000-6000 extra…